The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingB. Olds, 1852 - 252 páginas |
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... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a pecu liar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Cf man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
... truth , that mankind had transgressed in a pecu liar manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Cf man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have ...
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... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In ...
... truth form the basis of every virtue . Disappointments and distress are often blessings in dis- guise . Change and alteration form the very essence of the world . True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In ...
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have establish- ed our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . When , upon rational and sober enquiry , we have establish- ed our principles , let us not suffer them to be shaken by the scoffs of the licentious , or the cavils of the sceptical . When we ...
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... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructor will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpow ered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
... truths which the multitude do not tell him . A more sound instructor will lift his voice , and awaken within the heart those latent suggestions , which the world had overpow ered and suppressed . Amusement often becomes the business ...
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... truth , ” L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
... truth , ” L'Estrange , in his Fables , tells us that a number of frolic- some boys were one day watching frogs , at the side of a pond ; and that , as any of them put their heads above the water , they pelted them down again with stones ...
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